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The Companion to Dombey and Son (Dickens Companions Series Lup)
Trey Philpotts
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Description for The Companion to Dombey and Son (Dickens Companions Series Lup)
Hardcover. Tenth volume in the Dickens Companions series, offering comprehensive annotation of the novel Dombey and Son. Series: The Dickens Companions. Num Pages: 592 pages, 21 black & white plates. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 158 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1020.
Dombey and Son (1846–48), Dickens’s seventh novel, stands at the mid-point of his career. It was begun in Switzerland after a break from near-continuous novel writing and bears the hallmarks of its long gestation and Dickens’s deepening engagement with the many cross-currents shaping Britain’s social, cultural and political life. Predominant among them are public debates about the need to provide schooling for young children, ethical questions prompted by the demolition of neighbourhoods to make way for railways, the discussion of sanitary reforms to improve the nation’s health, and divergent responses to prostitution and other crimes inextricably linked with poverty, illiteracy ... Read more
Dombey and Son (1846–48), Dickens’s seventh novel, stands at the mid-point of his career. It was begun in Switzerland after a break from near-continuous novel writing and bears the hallmarks of its long gestation and Dickens’s deepening engagement with the many cross-currents shaping Britain’s social, cultural and political life. Predominant among them are public debates about the need to provide schooling for young children, ethical questions prompted by the demolition of neighbourhoods to make way for railways, the discussion of sanitary reforms to improve the nation’s health, and divergent responses to prostitution and other crimes inextricably linked with poverty, illiteracy ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Condition
New
Series
The Dickens Companions
Number of Pages
592
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781381274
SKU
V9781781381274
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About Trey Philpotts
Trey Philpotts is Professor of English at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and author of The Companion to Little Dorrit (2003).
Reviews for The Companion to Dombey and Son (Dickens Companions Series Lup)
[From review of The Companion to A Tale of Two Cities]: The Dickens Companions are clearly indispensable to the scholar.
Modern Language Review
'“The annotation attempts to open up the actual and imaginative worlds which provided the sources and the backgrounds of Dickens’s works in the belief that what interested, engaged and amused Dickens can hardly fail to ... Read more
Modern Language Review
'“The annotation attempts to open up the actual and imaginative worlds which provided the sources and the backgrounds of Dickens’s works in the belief that what interested, engaged and amused Dickens can hardly fail to ... Read more